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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit leaders must model diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, like recruiting their next board members from different, diverse networks. He is a Chicago-born Oregonian, who moved to Eugene after living abroad in Sudan. Leaders must be the objective prime mover for slow-moving board diversity.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" The model of State Department's Cultural Exchanges. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. They think of each other as gamers. When they find out you are an American, there is a moment of cognitive disonance, but then they come to: "You're not so bad as an American."

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MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Some groups like The Sudan Genocide Intervention Project and Dennis Kucinich chose to hide the number of friends they had. On MySpace, though, you dont necessarily "get" friends, you earn them yourself by surfing other users profiles and clicking the "Add as Friend" button. How many comments do nonprofits have?

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MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Some groups like The Sudan Genocide Intervention Project and Dennis Kucinich chose to hide the number of friends they had. On MySpace, though, you dont necessarily "get" friends, you earn them yourself by surfing other users profiles and clicking the "Add as Friend" button. How many comments do nonprofits have?

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13 Women Changing the World

Have Fun - Do Good

One Mango Tree uses a fair trade model to provideincome generating opportunities for women artisans inimpoverished and conflict-ridden areas of the globe. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (December 22, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 6. Halle Butvin Founder and Director, One Mango Tree.

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